Fred Myers,’Paintings, Publics, and Protocols: The early Paintings from Papunya’, Material Culture Review, No. 79, Special Issue: Things between Worlds: Creating Exoticism and Authenticity in the West, from the 19th Century to the Present. (2015) pp. 78-91.

Our next meeting will be held next Monday the 27th of April from 4 – 5pm in room 307 of the John Medley Building.

We are focusing on two new texts for this month:

“Superhighway across the sky– Aboriginal new media arts in Australia: A remix and email conversation between Adam Szymanski and Jenny Fraser” from the recent release Reverse Shots: Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context (c.2015)

and

“Is Art History Any Use to Aboriginal Artists? Gabriel Maralngurra’s Contact Paintings” by Henry Skerritt in Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Contemporary Art Edited and Introduced by Ian McLean (2014)

In addition, we will discuss ‘Chapter 1: Vision Has an Art History’ from Whitney Davis, A General Theory of Visual Culture (Princeton UP, 2011) in preparation for Whitney’s forthcoming visit to Melbourne.

If you have trouble getting hold of any of the readings please contact me at susan.lowish[at]unimelb.edu.au

The next Aboriginal Art Reading Group will be held next Monday the 25th of August from 4 – 5pm in room 307 of the John Medley Building.

We will celebrate the work of Tony Albert, who recently won the Basil Sellers AND the NATSIAA!!!!, by reading:

the first monograph on the artist Tony Albert.

We will also read:

Melinda Hinkson, ‘Back to the Future: Warlpiri Encounters with Drawings, Country and Others in the Digital Age’, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14735784.2013.811888 (drawings and digital technology in Warlpiri culture).
If you have trouble getting hold of any of the readings please contact me at susan.lowish[at]unimelb.edu.au